Holly Stephey talks to Kimon Kirk, New Music!

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 10 p.m.

b"LA-based singer-songwriter, bassist, and album producer\\xa0Kimon\\xa0Kirk has worked with a wide range of artists including Gaby Moreno, Aimee Mann, Alejandro Escovedo, Grant-Lee Phillips, Session Americana, Sarah Borges, Amy\\xa0Correia, Lori McKenna, and other musicians of diverse musical stripes.\\xa0 A native of Boston, he relocated to Los Angeles in 2018 and has since been a mainstay of Latin-Grammy winner Gaby Moreno's touring band, as well as performing with Amy Correia (and producing her forthcoming EP) and playing bass with former X-guitarist Tony Gilkyson.\\xa0 His jazz trio, the Blue Grifters, includes\\xa0guitarist Michael Eisenstein (Letters to Cleo) and\\xa0drummer Sebastian Aymanns (Gaby Moreno, Aimee Mann).\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nIn 2020 Kimon will release his first full-length solo album since 2011, tentatively called Altitude.\\xa0 It features his longtime Boston band, the Meds, and was recorded with David Minehan (of the Replacements and the Neighborhoods) at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Boston.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nKimon\\xa0has been an invited guest lecturer on songwriting and music performance at\\xa0Berklee\\xa0College of Music, Georgetown University, Boston College, Boston University, and Suffolk University."